st: requesting help for a newbie

["Deborah L. Rhodes" <drhodes@usc.edu>]

I have searched the helpfiles with no success.

I keep coming up with "varlist not allowed".  Could someone please advise 
me how to fix the error, but more importantly how to get to the meanings of 
various "error codes" in the help files.  My searches on errors, error 
codes, varlist, and "varlist not allowed" proved fruitless.  I've also 
checked FAQ and other resources.   I'm trying to place my data values into 
quartiles.  Seems to be a two step process, first set up pctiles then 
xtiles, but I can't get past the "varlist not allowed".  Thanks in 
advance.   DEB

Deborah L. Rhodes
student, University of Southern California
(Stata 8, if it matters)


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